Towards a Model for Measuring Teamwork in Australian Rules Football Officials

Timothy Neville; Paul M Salmon; Gemma J M Read

doi:10.1177/1541931213601034

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Towards a Model for Measuring Teamwork in Australian Rules Football Officials

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Towards a Model for Measuring Teamwork in Australian Rules Football Officials

Timothy Neville, Paul M Salmon and Gemma J M Read

Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 2016 Annual Meeting, Vol.60(1), pp.148-152

Human Factors and Ergonomics Society International Annual Meeting, 2016 (Washington DC, United States, 19-Sep-2016 - 23-Sep-2016)

Sage Publications Inc.

2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1541931213601034

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Australian Rules

teamwork

Officials in sport are a growing area of research in human factors due to the rapid decision making, expertise and teamwork required to officiate. Influenced by the "Big Five" model of teamwork, this paper presents exploratory research which developed measures for capturing teamwork in Australian Rules Football (AFL) Umpires. Four ratings of AFL umpiring teamwork are presented - Time in Control, Difference in Control, Time in Midzone and Difference in Midzone, which capture coordination, mutual performance monitoring and backup behavior in AFL umpiring teams. The measures are tested through observational analysis of umpiring teams in seven AFL games. The findings demonstrate that the measures achieved inter- and intra-team differences in teamwork; while over the course of games the umpiring teams demonstrated the ability to self-regulate. The suitability of the measures to AFL umpiring, the "Big Five" model, and other teamwork domains are discussed. Finally, extensions of the measures into a model of AFL umpiring teamwork are presented.

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Title: Towards a Model for Measuring Teamwork in Australian Rules Football Officials
Authors: Timothy Neville (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts, Business and Law
Paul M Salmon (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts, Business and Law
Gemma J M Read (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts, Business and Law
Publication details: Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 2016 Annual Meeting, Vol.60(1), pp.148-152
Conference details: Human Factors and Ergonomics Society International Annual Meeting, 2016 (Washington DC, United States, 19-Sep-2016 - 23-Sep-2016)
Publisher: Sage Publications Inc.
DOI: 10.1177/1541931213601034
ISSN: 1541-9312
Grants: A new complex systems approach to road trauma: Applying systems thinking to the fatal five, FT140100681, Australian Research Council (Australia, Canberra) - ARC
Organisation Unit: Centre for Human Factors and Sociotechnical Systems; School of Health - Psychology; School of Law and Society; School of Social Sciences - Legacy
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99450554602621
Output Type: Conference paper

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